The Omaha Sunday Bee
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OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 3, 1918.
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EDDIE JJNSLOW TV0 PIN EVENTS
TO JOIN OMAHA LOOM AHEAD FOR
CATCHING CORPS! ALLEY SHARKS
J0HN L SULLIVAN, FAMOUS i f
PRIZE-RING CHAMP OF OLD
BARE-KNUCKLE DAYS, DIES
Former Middleweight Titleholder Who Made and Squan
dered Fortune During Lurid Fighting Career,
Passes Away at Home in Massachusetts; Was ,
Slashing Fighter of the Old Type.
Creighton Cage Stars Who Will Play
i Dodge and Funston Quints This Week
;
Veteran of . Several Years
Standing to Be Pa Rourke's
Mainstay Behind the
Annua City Tournament at
Farnam Alleys and Handicap
Tourney at Omaha Alleys
This Month.
Bat This Year.
Eddie Onslow, catcher of several
.years standing in both the majors and
minors, will be ra Kourke s mainstay
behind the bat this year, according To
reports' trom Providence.
Onslow was for several rears a
( catcher on the Detroit Tigers. Later
' he was sent to Providence in the In
ternational league, where he has
ranked as one of the best receivers
in that Class AA "circuit. Last year,
when Lew McCarty and Bill Rariden
were hurt, Onslow was the man Mc
Graw picked s. to fill the gap in the
Giants' catching department.
Onslow is a .300 hitter in almost
any company and he still is a mighty
ood catcher. He should be a bear
in the Western league.
According , to the Providence re
port, the nly reason he Rhode
Island vjub consented to sell Onslow
. to Omaha was the belief that the In
f ternationaj would not start this year.
Rourke lost both of his last, year'j
catchers,- Tony Brottem and Ben
, Shaw; (jBrotte mwent to St. Louis
and St, '-Louis shipped him to Little
Rock. Shaw gets a trial with Pitts
burgh in the spring.
In Onslow, though," Rourke has a
man who should be much better than
either Brottem or Shaw. ,. ,
v No Oklahoma Invasion.
The Western league, will make, no
invasiotf of 'Oklahoma. - Any thance
the Dickerson loop may have had. to
break into Oklahoma City and Tulsa
has gone by the boards. v
President E. M, Duncan of Okla-
g homa City has announced that the oil
cities will tinder "no "circurrtstnces
join the Western league, and as the
new Arkoma league has just been
formed, with these towns as the lead
ing members, he probably is correct.
Duncan declares the Western
leaguers tried to slip him a package
and he is very much, peeved over it, .
Thus if, , the, Western league is to
expand it must take in the Open. Illi
nois territory. This is probably what
will happen. - ... . ;
: The annual schedule meeting has
been i'called. for Des Moine&'but no
date has been set. The" magnates are
waiting until' aft the cities are lined
up before attempting to draw up a
schedule. ( '.
Western, league Koteg.
Times Hartford will be back at' short
wirh Des Molnei thi year. -Washington
bought Hartford last fall, but he has been
returned. This Is the second time Bruce
has gone to the big show only to be
shipped back by return express without
even a trial. June Cass, outfielder, how
ever, will go couth with the - Senators, it Is
announced. ,
Frank Isbell Is after Pitcher Adrian
tynch, who belongs to Washington, Lynch,
it Is said, has been offered to Minneapolis,
but Isbell has next crack if the Minnesota
olub doesn't want &ira, . vpWr
Lefty Haftirian,:- who alternated 111 tw
box and the Outfield for the- Denver Bears
last year, has been placed in Class 1 of
the draft at Tacoma, Wash., his ' home.
Walter McCredie, new manaper of ths Salt
Lahe Bees, had eyes . on Lefty, but since
the draft board Yuling- has decided tJ ass
up the versatile youngster.
Dick Breen, veteran of many campaigns
in the Western league, is the head of a
new amateur base ball league organized at
Des Moines. Dick is acting as assistant
playground director at Dea Moines and It
was because of this Job that he undertook
the organization of the sandlot league.
This may mean Riohard will not be Larry
Spahr's battery mate at Dee Moines this
year. .
Hutchinson, It to reported, has raised
more than $10,000 toward a guarantee fund
to be offered Jack Holland to retain bis
Western league franchise In the Kansas
town. Holland Is said to have Informed
the Hutchlnsonltes that he would stick tf
1S,000 was raised. The Jay hawkers are
hot on the trail of the 15 thou.
T f The deal by which Ducky Holmes will
take the Lincoln club to Sioux City Is prac
tically complete, official? of the Sioux City
Commercial club report. Sioux town fans
are said to be showing symptoms of real
enthusiasm over the prospects of the re
turn of base ball. f '
Athletic Tournament to Be
' Held by St. John's Parish
An athletic tournament will be
, given by St. John's parish at Creigh
ton gymnasium Tuesday night at 8
o'clock.
Farmer Burns will give a wrestling
exhibition and Dennis Ryan a box-
ing exhibition. The Gibfon twins
" will stage a three-round g!ove cort-
' ' test, and the Johnston brothers, called
the youngest wrestling team in Amer
ica, will go for two falls out of three.
Relay races and a number of other
Contests will be staged by the mar
ried and single women and the chil
dren. - ; '
Practice Trap Shoot at .
The Omaha Gun Club Today
A practice trap shoot will be staged
at the Oraaha Gun club this after
noon, starting at 1:30.
The Omaha Gun club has almost
closed a deal for a site for a new
club house. The club house at the
present location just across the Mis
souri river bridge, " burned down the
other day. .The club is said to have
two locations, both on this side of
the river, 'in view for, the ne. club
and that a deal will be consummated
in time to have, a new club house
erected by spring. ,
Husker Track Team Loses
Its Captain to the Army
The, University of Nebraska track
T,; team has lost its leader. Captain
Owen has enlisted in the army avia
tion corps and now is in training at
' ban Antonio, Tex..
Owen is the fourth Cornhusker
athletic star to enlist. Shaw, cap
tain of the foot ball eleven, is to en
ter the balloon school and Ted Rid
dell and Bill Day . of the gndiron
rew are to enter the Great Lakes
naval training station, '
Warner to Wrestle Miller
At Loup City February 1 1
Rudy Warner, Omaha heavyweight
grappler, and Warren Miller of Lex
ington have bbcen matched to wrestle
at Lup City, Neb., February 11.
Miller, wrestling fns believe, is
4 one of the best bone-crushers in the
state, despite his recent defeat at the
'hands of Jack Taylor, and Warner is
v.'U.skling a tough proposition when he
. goes up against the Lexington lad.
CITY WINNERS LAST TEAK.
- TEAM.
Omas t,7M
DOVBLE8.
Coff and K, Sclple i,W9
SINGLES.
McCoy -Wartrhow 935
(wartchow wins on roll-oft.)
ALL EVENTS.
H. L. McCoy , 1310
Two bowling tournaments are on
tap for Omaha pin enthusiasts this
month. v
The annual city chamnionshio tour
nament starts at the Farnam alleys
February 8 and llad riuntineton s an
nual handicpa tourney will 'be held
Feburay 16 to 24 on the Omaha al
leys.
lhe pity tournament is attracting
widespread local interest owing to
several changes in 'method, which are
to be inaugurated this year. An effort
is- to be made to 'prevent the top
notch stars .from1 getting together by
a rule which prevents formation of
all-star teams merely for tournament
purposes.
In addition, the weaker leagues will
be permitted to enter crack teams
cdmposed of stars, selected from the
various teams of the league. ,
Ihis will make the city event
more evenly matched affair and should
aaa icr inc interest as nereioiore some
complaint had been heard because a
few' of thecity's sharks always clean
ed ;up all the money m the city tour
naments.
-' . Women To Take Part.
An. additional factor in the interest
in the; city event is that for the first
time in history women wilf compete.
One night has been set aside for the
woman's teams and the woman's
championship wilLbe settled.
The Huntington handicap tourna
ment February '16! to 24, is expected
not only to attract a large entry list
from local teams, but from out of
town quints as well, as the tourney is
open to any and all.
The handicaps make this an even
match and anybody entered has a"
chance to .get some of the money. The
handicap figure has been set at lo5,
That is, all participants will be given
handicaps to make their average 185.
The following teams already have
sent in their entries for. the city tour
nament at the rarnam alleys:
Scott Tents, Bevos,
Powell Supply, Omaha Bicycles.
Central Furniture. Besellns Old Boys,
Corey-MoKenile,
McQuillans Hats,
Murphys,
Commonwealth Life,
Bankers . Realty,
Washington Shirts,
O'Brien Candles,
Grain Exchange,
Far nam League,
union Pacifflcs,
Benson,
Kuhry's Kolta.
Bowling Notes, r
Crowder, the- new man on the Powell
Supply team, looks like he will attract as
t-mucn Attention as tne provost general h.m
sen.
Swoboda, who has been bowling poorly
this season. Is showing signs of improve
ment.
Last week's rolling In the Greater Omaha
league wasn't featured by any record
breaking performances. The cold weather
seemed to affect our temperamental pin
sharks. Jaroah's 620 and Lcplnskl's 604
were the only 600 totals.
The Murphy-Dld-Its won high honors
last week, witj i,7B5, but were only two
pins ahead of thd Central Furnitures.
Oeorge Kennedy was displaced as Indi
vidual leader In the crack Greater Omaha
loop this week. He's now third.-
The Powell Supply team beat the Greater
Omaha league loaders two games l.iat
week, but lost their hold on second place
when the Central Furnitures copped all
three trom the Bevos,
Hendricksen May" Try His
Luck in National League
Outfielder "Olaf Hendicksen, re
leased by the Boston Americans last
fall, may try a comeback in the Na
tional league. Out of several offers
he has received he likes that from
the Brooklyn club best. Other dubs
to make him offers were the St. Louis
Americans and the Pittsburgh Na
tionals. Mack to Send Two More Men
To Baltimore in Exchange
The release of Catcher Myers, First
Baseman Griffin and Pitcher Parnham
by Connie Mack to Baltimore was to
complete a trade, by which Mack gets
from Baltimore Catchers McAvoy and
Shortstop Shannon. In addition to
the trio named Baltimore also gets
from Mack Second Baseman Lawry
and Catcher Alex Schaufele.
'- . Transfer Is Blocked.
The deal for transfer of Pitcher
Dutch Reuther from Cincinnati to
Vernon has been blocked because of
a contention over who shall stand the
loss in case Reuther is drafted. Ver
non objects to full payment of the
price asked unless it is guaranteed the
services cf the player for the full sea
son, f
War in Bush League;
Cheating Charge Made
There is war in the Bush league,
the only admittedly bush bowling
league in America, which rolls oa
Loch's Harney street alleys.
The war is between . Pete Loch
and Johnny Leonard, leaders of op
posing teams in the league. Decla
rations of hostilities were made al
.most simultaneously by both par
ties. The nub of the whole thing U that
both Loch and Leonard accuse each
other of "framing.' Leonard de
clares that Loch has had his team
take part in secret practices. Loch
hurls the same counter charge at
Leonard.
Be it known, it is one of the dyed-in-the-wool
rules of the league that
no sharks shall play on any team.
Loch, declares Leonard's team, by
virtue of the secret' practices, has
become a team of sharks. Leonard
says the same thing about Loch.
It has been suggested the two
teams roll a match, game to settle
tht dispute, but the gladiators re
fuse to agree on this became they
assert the other will "lay down In
order to make a low score and thus
disprove the charges. ,
Anyway, the war goes merrily on.
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Standingleft to right
Coach Mills:
! Sitting. left to right:
Haley, Vic Spittlef.
FEBRUARY 21 IS
DATE NAMED FOR
CADD0CK MATCH
Clash Between Champion and
Ad Santel to Take Place'
at- Auditorium, Marfisi
Announces.
Earl Caddock, world's wrestling
champion and Ad Santel, Pacific
coast champion, will clash at the
Omaha Atlditorium, February 21
according to announcement by Carl
Marfisi, who will promote the event.
It will be Marfisi's maiden effort as
wrestling promoter inaOmiiha. He
had hoped to stage The' Caddock
Zbvszko ko here, but Des Moines
beat himto it. ' ,
Santel formerly was well known as
Adolph Ernst. When he went to the
Pacific coast two years ago he
changed his title to Santel undit was
under that name that he won the
Pacific coast championship which he
heldj until he met Joe Stetcher and
Marin Plestina, both of whom de
feated him. '
Santel now is working in Chicago
under Joe Coffey's management.
Ihe match win .be Laddocks first
professional appearance in Omaha
since he won from Joe btctcher al
most a year ago.
Next hnday night Caddeck meets
Wladek Zbyszko in Des Mjines. The
Laddock-bantel match for Omaha, in
way, hangs upon the result of the
Friday encounter because Caddock
must beat Zbyszko in "Order to get
the match with Santel.
Two Matches Are Played
In Big Curling Bonspiel
Two matches in the first round of
the first annual Omaha curling .bon
spiel were played at Miller park yes
terday afternoon.
h. b. Dodds jink scored. a victory
over William McAdam's rink, 8 to 4.
Dodds' team consisted of C. C Sad-
er, Dick Porter and Fred Parker.
and M, Leyings, John Schindler and
H. uussie played on the McAdam
rink.. .
W. T. Hisloo woo a victory over VV.
G. Watson, 11 to 8. Tommy Leuch-
ars: Ed Higgins and C. K. .Denman
played on the Hislop team and John
r in lay son, jonn acninaier ana j. it.
Hussie on the Watson rink. The two
latter players were permitted to play
on the Watson team because two of
Watson's players failed to show. The
stellar curling of Denman, was large
ly responsible for the Hislop victory.
In today's battles, E. S. Dodds will
play Alec Melvin; Bob Melvin will
play the winner of the John McTag-gart-H.
E. Fernandez match, and K.
G. Watson plays the winner of the
Bob Gait-John Muir event.
Snow Blockade Keeps
Clarke From Banquet
Fred Clarke, millionaire oil man and
wheat magnate of Kansas, has been'
pending a week visiting in Pittsburgh.
where he used to. manage the ball
club. He started for Pittsburgh in
tending to be present at the annual
banquet of the Pittsburgh "Stove
league, but was delayed by snow
storms and tram, congestion. Inci
dentally Clarke objects to a statement
that he was "hounded" out of base
ball by harsh Pittsburgh critics. He
says he retired in good order.
Sam Crawford May Sign
With St. Louis National?
Detroit, Mich.. Feb. 2. It became
known here today that Sam Craw
ford, the once great slugger of the
Detroit American league base ball
club, may soon sign a contract with
the St. Louis Nationals. Crawford is
a free agent
Since Crawford was dropped from
the roster of the Detroit club last fall,
it was thought that he would sigfc a
contract with a club in the Pacific
coast league.
Five Army Teams Playing
In Panama Canal Circuit
The Fanama Canal Zone league
has been under way more than a
month now, having started on De
cember 16, and according to word
received from the zone interest is
great. There are five, army teams
and three team representing civil
ians in the league and the army men
are pulling strong for one of their
teams to win the pennant this season,
something none has been able to do
in the past.
K. Camel, Carroll, MacAUister, Berry, Coyne, E. Camel, Festner,
Chuck Kearney, Howard Vandiver, Eddie Mullholland, Eddie
i By FRED S.. HUNTER. .
ONE of the most picturesque char
, acters bf the prtye ring was
counted hut by vthe Great . Referee
yesterday when John L. Sullivan died
on his farm near West ' Abington,
Mass.
Sullivan probably was the most
popular of all heavyweight boxing
champions. He won, his title in the
old days of bare knuckle fighting.
He was the hero of many a vicious
battle. He was a slugger of the primi
tive, fighting type never a fancy
boxer so fashionable in these mod
ern days and he always fought the
kind of fight so dear to tlie gore-loving
diciples of pugilism who were
never happy unless the canvas reeked
in blood and each contesting ladiator
resembled more closely at the finish
a bull pupe just rescued from a battle
with, a mountain wildcat than a hu
man being.
Sullivan, too, was a willing fighter;
when he was champion he never hesi
tated to give any and all contenders
an opportunity to make their mark.
And he did not demand ridiculously
exorbitant purses a, habit nowadays.
Iirfact, $2,000 was ther largest purse
Sullivan ever fought for. That was
the sum put up when he fought Jim
Lorbett and lost the championship.
Yet Sullivan reaped a golden har
vest in the prize ring. He. admitted
himself his earnings were more than
$2,000,000 and that more than $1,000,
000 he spent in making himself a good
fellow.
Many have been the stories told
of John L. Sullivan and his fight
against the "black bottle." y Many
times was the career of John L. Sul
livan recited to preach the moral of
temperance. Many times he was used
to illustrate the folly of high living
too much food and 'drink and too
many bright lights. Yet John L. Sul
livan lived and diei the friend of
thousands, nad what great earthly
achievement can there be than to live
and die a true comrade of mankind 1
Fox Cutler. f !
THE police,' we eee,, stopped the
A Zbyszko-Cutler match at Du
luth Friday night ' when Zbyszko
twisted Charley's toe so mercilessly
that the humany coppers could not
stand to see Cutler tortured so.
Charley Cutler may not be the old
est wrestler in thev game nor has he
wrestled more matches than some of
the other bone-crushing leaders, but
he does hold all records for getting
hurt. If Cutler really had been Tiurt
all the times he was supposed to
have been, thee ombined surgical
forces of the allied armies couldn't
keep him above sod.
They Do It on Broadway.
MARIN PLESTINA is out about
rl 1,000 bucks, the cost of a fruit
less journey to New York. Marin
went to New York, posted $1,000 and
offered to battle any wrestling in cap
tivity for that sum. . Before New York
could turn an attentive ear, the wrest
ling impressarios along the Great
Jay Way beat Marin ta it by calling
the Omaha bone-crushed a cheap no
toriety seeker who, as a wrestler, was
a first-class clown. I The Gotham
wrestling bugs swallowed bait, hook
line and sinker, the pampered pets of j
Manhattan escaped the threatened
pestilence, and Marin was obliged to
plod his weary way back to Chicago.
Thus do the wise boys of the east
play without putting into the pot
but only in the east.
Joe's New Meal Ticket.
T EN days ago Joe Stecher wrestled
A John Frieberg at Norfolk, Va.,
Friday night Toe wrestled Frieberg at
Sioux, City. This week they clash at
Columbus, O. If Joe and Frieberg
continue, they'll make the Langford
TeaneUe brother-in-law , sketch look
like pop-time stuff. ;
How Coul'i You, Ray?
D-AY PAGE always was an,annoy
t chap. Now comes Ray to disturb
the peaceful, homelike atmosphere of
the 145-pound grappleri with a chal
lenge on1 behalf of one Krieger of
Lincoln. Not on'y Rav! ry to
horn in,to the party, but he insists on
bringinfl some money along. Had
Ray behaved he might possibly have
landed a match for his protege, but he
crabbed the act when he flashed the
currency. Whenever anybody talks
money in wrestling circles, the stuff
is off. Somebody must have kidded
Ray into believing that "shooting"
matches were coming into style again.
TEXAS FAVORED
SPOT FOR MAJOR
LOOP TRAINING,
No Less Than Seven Big
League Clubs Will Play Ex
i hibitions in Lone Star
State.
Plenty of major league base ball
will be given to the fans of Texas this
season. At least seven0 big league
clubs will play there this spring.
Five clubs will start in the Lone
Star state to prepare for the 1918
races and at least two others will
visit there on the way to the north
land. Thp New York and St.' Louis
Nationals and the Chicago, St. Louis
and Detroit Americans have selected
training camps in the state.
The Cleveland Americans; who will
train at New Orleans, will meet the
New York Nationals at Dallas in
exhibition contests, and the Cincinnati
Nationals are expected to come from
their camp in Alabama and cross bats
with the Detroit Americans. Hot
Springs, Ark., will have a club from
each league, as will Jacksonville, Fla.
J. he following table shows where
the club will train;
V AMERICAN:
Chicago, at Mineral Well", Tel.
St. Louli, at Faleatlne, Tex.
Detroit, at Waxahachle, Tex.
Waahlna-ton, at Tampa, Fla. r
Philadelphia, at Jaehaonvillo, Fla.
Boston, at Hot Sprlnira. Ark.
Cleveland, at New Orleana, La.
New York, at Mncon, Oa.
NATIONAL:
New Tork, at Marlln, Tex.
Ht. Louli, at San Antonio, Tex.
'Chlcairo, at Paaadena, Cal.
Ilonton, at Miami, Fla.
Philadelphia, at St. Feternbunr. Fla.
Plttnburirh, at Jacksonville, Fla.
Cincinnati, at MontKomery, Ala.
Brooklyn, at Hot Springs. Ark.
Atlanta Club to Play for
Benefit of Soldier Camps
If President-Manager Charley
Frank carries out his announced plan
he may take his Atlanta Crackers
on a tour of army camps in the south.
His proposition is that the soldiers
shall receive the proceeds cf the ex
hibitions over and above the expenses
of staging them, and he believes that
camp funds for comforts can thus be
materially boosted. He will leave the
arrangements to the soldiers, and will
play any teams they select, either
major leaguers or soldier squads,
i
Some City This: Not Even
Good Sandlot Location
Savanna!?, a city of 75.000 popula
tion and oitee one of the best mem
bers of the South Atlantic league,
hasn't even a. ball park now. The
grounds formerly used by the South
Atlantic club there have been sold
and will be cut up into building lots.
The city won't have a place even for
high school games. It's another argu
ment for municipal control of sports
a community without a place for
athletic contests is in a sad way in
deed, and there is some lacking in its
administration of' affairs.
Henry Berry is in Bad at
.-San Francisco, Rumor Says
Vague rumors still circulate in
coast league circles that Henry Berry,
owner ot tne san rrancisco ciuo. is in
bad wjth his fellow magnates and that
plans are being laid to put the skids
under him. One report has it that
Cal Ewing of Oakland leads the oppo
sition to Berry and that it was he
who planned for Walter McCredie to
buy the Frisco club, but McCredie,
after studying the situation, concluded
that being a member on salary beats
magnating on shares.
Dunn Optimistic Over
Prospects for Base BalF
Jack Dunn may be a crab and a
grouch, but when, it comes to seeing
hopefully into the future he is a su
preme optimist. It is Dunn who is
boosting hardest for continuation of
the International league next season
and he shows his belief that the league
will go through by his recent deal
with Connie Mack by which he gets
several players for the coming season.
Indoor Base Ball Shed
At Springs is Destroyed
If Roger Bresnahan's Toledo team
trains at Dawson Springs this spring
it will have to do its work in the
open. The mammoth shea istiilt there
for indoor work by the Pittsburgh
club and used by Toledo after Pitts
burgh abandoned the Kentucky re
sort, collapsed unricr the weight of
snow on the roof last week and the
Dawson people say the structure will
not be repaired
Abington, Mass., Feb. 2.
champion heavyweight boxer
here today.
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WHIST SHARKS
INVADE OMAHA
ON FEBRUARY 15
0
Cracks From Nebraska, Iowa,
Illinois, Missouri and Okla
homa to Play in Central
Association Tourney.
Some of the best whist nlavers in
the central west will compete when
the twenty-fourth annual .meeting of
the Central Whist association is held
at the Hotel. Roniu February 16
and 16.
J. A. Abbott of Omaha, secretary
of the association, has received word
from many of the card sharks saying
they are sua to be on hand.
St. Joseph will send a team bf at
least 12 and perhaps 14 men. H. H.
Libbe, vie president of the associa
tion, will lead this team of invaders.
Oscar Hoberg of Sioux City promises
to bring a team of eight and says that
perhaps this number will be doubled.
Charles Martin will head a delega
tion from Broken Bow. A. L. Saund
ers and a partner will represent the
Perry, Okla., Whist club. . Judge
Corcoran and Charles Carpenter from
York will be on hand.
Henry T. Fry and A. J. Mouat of
Chicago, both of whom are ex-presidents
of the American Whistv league,
have iromised Mr. Abbott that they
will attend. Judge J. J. Shea of
Bartlesvillc, Okla., and George 4A.
McNutt of Kansas City fcre other as
sociate members from outside points
who will be here. 1
Business Meeting.
A business meeting will precede the
opening of hostilities February 15. At
2 o'clock that afternoon the whisters
will gather for the first event, team
play for the Richards challenge tro
phy. One team of four men from
each club is eligible.
At the same time the first play for
the pair contest for the St Joseph
trophy in which any number may en
ter will start. "
These two events continue until
Saturday night when a free-for-all
pair contest for the Schnfelzer trophy
under the Mitchell progressive sys
tem starts.
Thursday night, the day before the
tourney starts, a completed pair con
test will be held.
Club Membership.
Clubs which now are members of
the Central Whist association are
Council Bluffs Whist club, Decora
Whist club of Sioux City, Elk Point.
S. n.. Whist club. Grand Island
Whist club, Hakeye Whist club of
Sioux City, Omaha Whist ,club,
Perry, Okla., Whist' club, Prairie
Park Whist club of Omaha, St.
Joseph Whist clrb, Wakefield Whist
club, York Commercial club.
Present" officers of the association
are as follows:
President, C. W. Martin, Omaha;
vice president," H. H. Libbe, St
Joseph; secretary-treasurer, J. A.
Abbott, Omaha. Directors: Fremont
Benjamin, Council Bluffs; Louis Nel
son, Omaha; W. A. Schaetzel, Elk
Point, S. D., A. J. Cunningham, Sioux
City, Ia. H. P. Shumway, Wakefield.
Neb., Charles Carpenter, York, Neb.,
Oscar Veit, Grand Islahd, Neb., J. A.
Scheisl, St. Joseph; C. S. Martin.
Broken Bow, Neb., Oscar Hoberg,
Sioux City, Ia '
Ship Magnate Gets Down
Third Bet on Base Ball
Morton F. Plant, miTlionaire ship
magnate, threatens to become a base
ball syndicate. He owns and operates
the New London club in the Eastern
league and owns stock in the Phil
adelphia Nationals, and nov it is re
ported Iff also has taken stock in the
Boston Nationals. Mr. Plant likes
base ball and like the man who likes
horse racing he sterns co feel he
must have a- bet down on several en
tries to. make it interesting.
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Bill Rariden is Anxious
To, Get Back Into Harness
Boshter Bill Rariden writes from
his farm near Bedford, Ini,; that he
was wintered well. The lad who gave
Eddie Co lins and Heine iCimmcrman
a -clear track for their celebrated
sprint hopes to have his spring wheat
planted in time to join the Giants at
St. Louis on their pilgrimage to Mar
lin. Demaree is wintering inChi
cago and Holke, the first base slasher,
in St. Louis.
Johnny Evers Made Free
Agent; May Join Chicago
Johnny Evers, scrappy second base
man, who was reported to have re
tired last season, promises to be back
in the gamo next summer. Evers is
a free agent, but it appears that ne
may be attached to the Chicago Cubs
in some cafacity or other. Jchnny
would be invaluable to any club as
a coach or tiaincr, as he is one of the
smartest players in the game.
Grief for Deadheads.
The Sacramento club in the Pacific
Coast leagu is to beji community
owned affair. It is planned; to have
several hundred stockholders, each
share in the $25,000 corporation; sell
ing at $10. No passes wil be issued
except to newspaper writers.
John L. Sullivan, formerly
of the world, died at hi home ;.
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Sullivan, who was 59 years of- age, '
had lived on a farm here for the last
JO years. . He was taken ill with heart
trouble three weeks ago, but his'
health quickly improved and he went '
to Boston yesterday. This morning 1
he arose as usual and planned an
other visit to the city, but during the -forenoon
bad an attack of thfe old
trouble, from which he failed to rally. '
He died at noon. Sullivan's wife died;
some months ago.
Sullivan's old fighting spirit re
mained with him to the end.. The'
first fainting spell left him unctmif
scious for 10 minutes and when he
rallied, George M. Bush, a friend who ,
lived with him, was applying ice bags
to his head. Bush told the former
champion to keep quiet, that he had
sent tor a doctor.
Refuses Doctor.
' "I don't want any doctor," John L.
said. "I've listened to a lot of them
in my life, and I know I am all right
and can doctor myself." : ' ;
He protested when Dr. Rann, who'
had been summoned by Bush, told
him he had better go to bed for a
couple o'. hours, when Dr. Ranit
left, Sullivan beckoned Bush: ' -
"Is the bathroom warm, George?V
he asked. "Yes? Well, that's fine I
want to take a bath." '1 ' ,
Ten minutes later he was dead.' , ,
William Kelley, a 15-year-old bojr;
who had been adopted by Sullivan,"
and Bush, his faithful friend, were
with him when he passed away .
Picturesque Character. , , '.;
John Laurence Sullivan was one of
the most picturesque characters in the
history of prize fighting. For more
than 10 years, from the time he de
feated Paddy Ryan in 1882, in bare
knuckle fight under the London prize
ring rules, until he was defeated by
James J. Corbetr. in 1892, his person
ality and methods of fighting com
pletely dominated sporting circles yin
the United States.
In the annals of pugilism in this
country two notable distinctions were
his: He was the last champion under
the London prize ring rules. It was
largely through his achievements that
the championship ' title was made a
prize of great monetary value. In the
early days of his career, $1,000 a side
was looked on as a great sum. He
received only $53 for the fight that
made him a national character in fisti
cuffs and won him. the right tothal
lenge Pdddy Ryan for the champion
ship. , ,
His friends ranged all the way from
the ordinary "fight fan" "to many mffi
of social and financial distinction in
the United States, and it is said he was
on chumming terms with the late
King Edward VII of England.
Began at 17. .' f '
' He bgaa his fighting career soon
after he was 7, when as the "Boston
Strong Boy' he took part in amateur
boxing contests in several cities in
ir.. -1 n .1 C..11:...
Massachusetts, if SoMiv&n's customary
procedure in his earl) youth could be
called boxing.' Tactics, strategy, plans
of campaign were all swept away,
when John L. hammered his ruthless,
undejviating way to the front. - His
style was atavistic, a return to the sim
ple, primitive principle of battering an
opponent into insensibility. His suc
cess, coupled with his free manners,
a certain social triumph and his sub
sequent position as a semi-public char
acter, proclaimed him a sort of digni
tary in the sporting world. :.
After his nine-round fight with Pad
dy Ryan, on the strip of greensward
on the Gulf of Mexico, the word
"knockout" was manufactured by Billy
Madden. Sullivan's trainer, to describe
the effect of his blows when properly,
delivered. , , ,
Last Knuckle Fight ;
His hardest fight wai with Jake KU
rain. It was fought near NewDrleans
and lasted for 75 rounds. That was
the last championship contest in the
United States to be fought with bare
knuckles, under the old rules.
That fight practically decided the
uselessness of trying to beat Sullivan
by combatting him in his own sledge .
hammer style. A 39-round fight
with Charley Mitchell, a wary and
skillful boxer, seemed to show fight
ing managers that the great John L
might be vulnerable to a man who
could box well and stay with him
long enough to wear him down.. The
opportunity to try this method on
the champion fell to James J. Cor
bett. The purse was the largest ever
put up in a ring battle to that time.
The purse was $25,000 and the stakes
$20,000. The fight that was to end
John L.'s championship was fought
before the Olympic club of New Or
leans. When the fight was over there
was a new champion of the world
Sullivan was 34 at th" time of his de '
feat. " ' .
Made Fortune. ,
Sullivan said himself that he mads
$2,000,000 in the fighting business and
that he spent $1,000,000 of it in buying
drinks fof himself and his host of ad
mirers. He had knocked out 200 men, ol
one sort or another in his fighting
career, and finally he said hat in a
saloon in Terre Haute, Ind, 'n 1905,
he gave, the "Black Bottle," his
greatest enemy, the knockout wal
lop. On the occasion of the decision
with regard to the "Black Bottle," ha
said:
"If I take another drink, I hope I
Continued on Vmf Ten, Coin mo Two.)
' Convict Pool Operators.
An echo of last summer's raids on
base ball lotterie,, was heard in St
Louis last week when, two operators
of base ball pools who had been con
victed after lon delay were find $250
each. . '
